Earth from Afar
An Earth Observatory Collection
A digital camera on the Blue Ghost lander looked back at Earth and captured this ethereal image.
Satellites gathered striking views of the Moon’s shadow from above as observers on the ground were awed by the Sun’s…
As the Moon crossed between the Sun and Earth during the 2023 annular eclipse, its shadow darkened skies across the…
A spacecraft designed to explore asteroids near Jupiter also looked back at Earth, acquiring distant views of our Moon and…
Fifty years after Apollo 17 astronauts photographed the iconic âblue marbleâ image, cameras in space have again captured distant views…
Two spacecraft designed to study the Sun also got some recent peeks at Earth and other planets.
Satellites are shedding new light on the invisible processes and rhythms at play at the intersection between Earth and space.
When the Apollo 11 astronauts left the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969, they brought home samples of…
These iconic photos are not new, but their message never gets old.
A spacecraft looked homeward while making its way to the asteroid Bennu.
The MarCO-B CubeSat snapped its first photo on May 9, 2018, and caught a glance of home.
OSIRIS-REx took a look back at home while making its way toward the asteroid Bennu.
As the spacecraft headed into its last days, it sent back this image of Earth framed by Saturn’s rings.
Earth-observing satellites follow the shadow of an annular eclipse.
A powerful telescope on a satellite orbiting Mars turned its gaze back on Earth.
The DSCOVR satellite captured the shadow of the Moon marching across Earth’s sunlit face.
Cameras on a lunar orbiter and some clever image processing techniques led to a new take on a historic image…
Storms and a lunar eclipse are a few of the phenomena visible in animations of Earth’s full disk.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory captured a unique view of the Moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth.…
From one million miles away, the DSCOVR satellite returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth.
The STEREO A spacecraft looked back from the far side of the Sun to capture an image of Earth and…
